Improved Sustainability Assessment of Remediation Using Economic Analysis of Impacts to Environmental and Social Assets Tourtelot Cleanup Project, Benicia, CA(PPT)

摘要

Sustainability assessments often seek to evaluate environmental and social impacts from a multi-criteria, largely qualitative perspective that allows for only a subjective comparison to the financial costs that dominate decision-making. The purpose of this study is to perform a life-cycle, economic analysis of the Tourtelot Cleanup Project designed to evaluate the sustainability in a quantitative and objective way. The Tourtelot Property (the Site) consists of approximately 200 acres of land that were remediated and developed into a 400-home residential development. The Site was formerly used by the U.S. Army for artillery testing and demolition of damaged and obsolete munitions and explosives. More than 70,000 tons of chemically impacted soils, 4,000 munitions and explosives of concern (MECs), and 60,000 pounds of MEC scrap were recovered from the Site. The cleanup was completed in 2004 and the Site is the first and only ordnance site in California to receive State approval for unrestricted residential development.